Tuesday, May 13, 2014

San Antonio: the Alamo, Pearl Edition

Sunday and Monday were travel days as we moved from El Paso
to San Antonio with a stop for barbecue in Ozona--possibly the best barbecue I’ve
ever had, at the Wagon Wheel, and then spent the night a bit up the road at
Sonora. That gave us an easy drive into San Antonio wherte we spent the
afternoon being the tourists we are.

Back in the day (2008-2011) we used to specialize in touring
cities in 3-5 days and often began with a “familiarization” tour from one of
the hop-on, hop-off services. So began our stay in San Antonio.

From there, of course, it had to be the Alamo. Setting aside
the fact that these martyrs were fighting to preserve slavery against the
reformist Mexican Republic which sought to outlaw it, the Alamo is a moving
monument. Our initial impression of the city is that this is a very nice place,
with a nicely balanced sense of history and a modern vitality.

The official story

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And from there, we decided to call it a day and to hang out
at the shops that are at the old Pearl Brewery and ended up eating at Cured, a
place that definitely knows how to treat meat and even gave Sharon a nice
vegetarian meal.